Robert Baden-Powell

Robert Baden-Powell (22 February 1857-8 January 1941) was a Lieutenant-General in the British Army who distinguished himself during the Second Boer War, during which he successfully defended Mafeking from the Boers. He was also the founder of the Scouting Movement, becoming the first Chief Scout of the Boy Scouts Association in 1910.

Biography
Robert Baden-Powell was born in London, England on 22 February 1857, and he was educated at Charterhouse before joining the British Army in 1876. Baden-Powell fought against the Ashanti Empire, the Matabele, and the Boers, and he became internationally famous for organizing the defense of Mafeking in the Second Boer War, holding the city for 217 days. During this time, he developed ideas about the value of discipline, self-respect, and fitness, and the importance of public service. He ran a boys' camp in Poole, Dorset in 1907, and he published Scouting for Boys a year later; he went on to establish the Boy Scouts in 1908 and the Girl Guides in 1909. The two movement sspread rapidly on a national and international scale, as they emerged at a time when the adults of the industrialized countries around the world expressed concern about the youth growing up in poor health in large and corrupt cities. He continued to promote the two movements as Chief Scout of the World from 1920, and he died in 1941.